Hitman: A guide to becoming a contract killer.

overdose · #1 (**permalink**) 07-29-2005, 05:39 PM

Ok, this is the book of national fame. It was supposedly used in a triple homicide back in the early '90s, and the "assassin" was caught and was connected to this book. The publisher, Paladin Press, was sued by the family of the victims (paladin press later settled) and as a result, this book was taken off of the publishers line of available books. By relinquishing all publishing rights to this book, it entered the public domain, which makes it legal for me to post it here. There are supposedly only around 13000 copies existing, but if you look hard enough you can find it. This is the book, put into HTML form, and zipped. Simply unzip, and open index.html in your browser of choice, and you have the entire book at your disposal.

NOTE TO THE IDIOTS: this book was written by "rex feral"... the pseudonym of a housewife in florida. Although there are some interesting points in this book, there is also plenty of inaccuracies and just stupid ideas. This book is not to be taken seriously, and is in no way a "manual for murder". Dont think this book is going to teach you to be a hitman, its just for fun. It is an entertaining read for sure, and very much worth checking out, if for nothing else the entertainment value.

And without further ado, i present to you:
http://rapidshare.de/files/3465808/hitman.zip.html

And the PDF version:
http://rapidshare.de/files/3470628/Hitman.pdf.html

kbk · #2 (**permalink**) 07-29-2005, 06:57 PM

I looked into being a bounty hunter a few years ago, actually it was around the time BS went down that I looked into that. If I ever get the chance I think I would still like to be a bounty hunter.

Briceus2000 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-30-2005, 12:36 PM

Might be best to bear in mind the third person rule in this thread guys...

kbk · #4 (**permalink**) 07-30-2005, 09:24 PM

Nothing wrong with being a bounty hunter and working for the local police department tracking down escaped cons and etc. That is what I meant.

piemaker · #5 (**permalink**) 07-31-2005, 01:35 PM

lol, what did you find out about bounty hunting? Oh and its a great book guys, I have it on the ol hard drive. great read.

piemaker

Briceus2000 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-02-2005, 08:38 PM

I think the term bail bondsman is more widely used. Unless you call yourself Dog.

kbk · #7 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 12:53 AM

Well I found at that being a bounty hunter required alot of time alone, and it was quite dangerous. I will post some of the sites I visited later on.

overdose · #8 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Briceus2000

I think the term bail bondsman is more widely used. Unless you call yourself Dog.

Dog is a joke. He is, if nothing else, successful as a TV personality.

custombass · #9 (**permalink**) 08-03-2005, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Briceus2000

I think the term bail bondsman is more widely used. Unless you call yourself Dog.

The most used term is bail enforcement officer. Bail bondsman i think is affiliated with bail enforcement, but i dont think it is actually what people generalize as a "bounty hunter' I think bail bondsman is more of the behind the desk work, like skip tracing and such. Iunno though. I found more results as a bail enforcement officer.

piemaker · #10 (**permalink**) 08-05-2005, 09:02 PM

heh, no idea, would be greatly appreciated if you post them sites

piemaker

custombass · #11 (**permalink**) 08-06-2005, 02:48 AM

http://www.bailtraining.com/index.cfm

http://www.scapecast.com/entertainment/bho/

i have a couple other on a broken comp that i can post later

blank stare · #12 (**permalink**) 08-07-2005, 04:27 PM

There are .html versions online for those of you who do not want to download it.

piemaker · #13 (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 03:14 PM

thanx for the sites

S25 · #14 (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 05:32 PM

I dont think i could be a bounty hunter after all its nearly as bad as being a rat although the idea of being a hitman is cool but this book is most deffinatly not to be taken likly as im sure the skills of a hitman is not somthing you can learn from a book,Try joining the army and getting into the SF and then go on the circuit you would have allot of the skills like that i believe.

db · #15 (**permalink**) 08-09-2005, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by S25

im sure the skills of a hitman is not somthing you can learn from a book

Don't even need a book. Just know how to pull a trigger, stab someone, hit with a bat or car, set fire, or strangle someone. Maybe joining the army would help you get contacts that would require your services, but to kill someone doesn't require a high level of knowledge.

Random · #16 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 03:39 AM

It's not the killing that is the hard part. It is more the sourcing business without getting arrested, sourcing equipment / ammunition / whatever, then doing it without leaving evidence, getting away without getting arrested...

If you were only going to be hitting unknown people, then you might get by being a hitman without any real training. But I wouldn't expect the pay to be too satisfying, and no doubt somebody who knew what you did would end up slipping something to the police after a few drinks or whatever.

If you were to hit someone who was more well known, or even someone in a position of authority somewhere, I imagine that the difficulty of the tasks mentioned above would increase exponentially.

custombass · #17 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Random

If you were to hit someone who was more well known, or even someone in a position of authority somewhere, I imagine that the difficulty of the tasks mentioned above would increase exponentially.

Thats also why the price would increase exponentially.

Random · #18 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 06:15 AM

This is true. However, if something is too difficult for someone to do, then it is too difficult for someone to do, regardless of how much they charge for the service.

You can buy better equipment, you can buy an alibi, but you can't buy common sense - and a lack of common sense is what gets many murderers arrested, when they would have otherwise gotten away with their crime unpunished.

piemaker · #19 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 02:36 PM

" to kill someone doesn't require a high level of knowledge."

heh but to get away with it does

S25 · #20 (**permalink**) 08-10-2005, 08:45 PM

I agree to kill someone is easy but to kill someone and not do time would be a hard thing to do over a period of time in a job especialy if you did 20+ hits.

overdose · #21 (**permalink**) 08-14-2005, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by db

Don't even need a book. Just know how to pull a trigger, stab someone, hit with a bat or car, set fire, or strangle someone. Maybe joining the army would help you get contacts that would require your services, but to kill someone doesn't require a high level of knowledge.

Uhh.....yeah....but do you want to get caught? Thats like saying "If you tape enough cardboard to your arms and flap them hard enough, you will eventually fly." It doesnt take much skill, but i wouldnt jump out of a plane doing it. Anyone can kill someone, a true contract killer has to be able to do their job, and GET AWAY with it.

Drunken_Master · #22 (**permalink**) 08-14-2005, 09:56 AM

personally, when i think of a contract killer, i don't think of someone who kills and then disposes of a body, i think of someone who sneaks into someones house/mansion or car or someplace and shoots em with a silenced pistol a couple times and is gone before anyone notices, black leather gloves, suit, quick disposal of all aids to the crime in a smart way, just someone real slick who isn't in anyway traceable to the crime.

overdose · #23 (**permalink**) 08-15-2005, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Drunken_Master

personally, when i think of a contract killer, i don't think of someone who kills and then disposes of a body, i think of someone who sneaks into someones house/mansion or car or someplace and shoots em with a silenced pistol a couple times and is gone before anyone notices, black leather gloves, suit, quick disposal of all aids to the crime in a smart way, just someone real slick who isn't in anyway traceable to the crime.

Never said disposal of the body is a priority. You are right, except for a few things. Suits stand out, you take notice of someone wearing a suit. Leather gloves have oil in them, and the leather pattern leaves a print, much like a finger print. Surgical gloves are about the only way to go.

jellocaca · #24 (**permalink**) 08-15-2005, 04:54 AM

Yeah I read that book like 3 years ago... fun read. Can you really make a silencer in your garage(meaning like the average Joe tools)

overdose · #25 (**permalink**) 08-15-2005, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jellocaca

Yeah I read that book like 3 years ago... fun read. Can you really make a silencer in your garage(meaning like the average Joe tools)

Yes, you can. Silencers (or, to be more accurate, suppressors) work on one basic principle. When you shoot a firearm, and you hear a loud "boom", it is the sound of very compressed gasses escaping at an extremely high rate from a single opening. A suppressor simply aims to slow the escape of these gasses with as little loss in power as possible. Basically, all its doing is allowing the gasses to escape through many more, smaller, holes and considerably slow down through a material denser (packing) than air before actually being dispersed into open air (thus lessening the sound created). The problem with suppressors is that the packing deteriorates in quality and effectiveness quite rapidly. When the packing has worn down enough, you may as well just be shooting through a tube. The packing is a vital part of suppressor functionality. Also, suppressors you see in movies that are 2 inches long by 1 inch wide or whatever, are completely unrealistic. The expansion of the aforementioned gasses exerts very powerful forces, and the gasses increase in volume several times once they have left the chamber/barrel of the firearm. Because of this, the volume of the silencer (and packing)needs to bequite a bit larger than the volume of the barrel to work effectively.

Firedragon · #26 (**permalink**) 10-28-2005, 08:16 PM

very interesting,good book

Jago · #27 (**permalink**) 10-30-2005, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by db

Don't even need a book. Just know how to pull a trigger, stab someone, hit with a bat or car, set fire, or strangle someone. Maybe joining the army would help you get contacts that would require your services, but to kill someone doesn't require a high level of knowledge.

don't know what army you are talking about mate, but if it was the aussie army then you'd be locked up in a stockade faster than you can sneaze, and then maybe the loonie bin.

db · #28 (**permalink**) 10-31-2005, 03:08 AM

@overdose
Surgical gloves are known to sometimes leave prints and they often do break exposing the skin. I think going with some cheap cloth gloves would do the trick. Also don't need smarts necessarly to get away with murder. How many junkies kill someone and get away with it? A lot.

A lot of murders are solved because the murder knew the victim or the person who hired the killer knew the victim and that person was caught and ratted out the killer.

@x]SPHYNX[x
You would learn the skills in the military. Drug cartels and other various organized crime groups are looking for people with military experience.

blank stare · #29 (**permalink**) 11-16-2005, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by db

Surgical gloves are known to sometimes leave prints and they often do break exposing the skin.

Two coats of airplane glue covering the parts of the fingers where the prints are. The famed "Zodiac" serial killer used it. No prints, removable, hardly noticeable.
It would be good to have a job in forensics or be an investigator or something along those lines if you needed to cover up a crime.

Jago · #30 (**permalink**) 11-18-2005, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by db

@overdose
Surgical gloves are known to sometimes leave prints and they often do break exposing the skin. I think going with some cheap cloth gloves would do the trick. Also don't need smarts necessarly to get away with murder. How many junkies kill someone and get away with it? A lot.

A lot of murders are solved because the murder knew the victim or the person who hired the killer knew the victim and that person was caught and ratted out the killer.

@x]SPHYNX[x
You would learn the skills in the military. Drug cartels and other various organized crime groups are looking for people with military experience.

you might learn some of the skills, but you won't gain contacts via the military, and nowadays they'd probably discharge you for being a nutter, i'm sure they'd pick up on it sooner or later, if not on your psych test before your CRT